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assemblage

[ uh-sem-blij; French a-sahn-blazh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.
the act of assembling; state of being assembled.
Fine Arts.
1. a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects.
2. a work of art produced by this technique. Compare collage, found object, ready-made ( def 4 ).
Archaeology. the aggregate of artifacts and other remains found on a site, considered as material evidence in support of a theory concerning the culture or cultures inhabiting it.

assemblage

/ əˈsɛmblɪdʒ /

a number of things or persons assembled together; collection; assembly
a list of dishes served at a meal or the dishes themselves
the act or process of assembling or the state of being assembled
ˌæsəmˈblɑːʒ a three-dimensional work of art that combines various objects into an integrated whole

assemblage

/ ə-sĕm′blĭj /

A collection of artifacts from a single datable component of an archaeological site. Depending on the site and culture, an assemblage may be associated with a single limited activity, as with stone tools found at a butchering site, or may reflect a broad range of cultural life, as with artifacts that are found in a communal living site.

From French, dating back to 1695–1705; assemble, -age

“The street pole that tells a wonderful story,” Maria told the assemblage.

The hallucination is visually incoherent, either a rough approximation of text or a random assemblage of letters.

Of course, the result is a wonderful modernist assemblage that has an almost Surrealist flavor.

His art collides gay culture, outsider art, religious camp and sophisticated assemblage and installation.

She saunters down the castle steps and stares out at a gloomy assemblage of soldiers.

At the confluence of these two rivers there was the finest assemblage of Savages that I have yet seen.

A vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.

Seldom has war brought together such a motley assemblage of races as gathered on the Ridge during the siege of Delhi.

Castile enjoyed the supremacy in that great assemblage of races and languages.

And, from the above assemblage of facts, it appears evident that the said Diard killed himself voluntarily and by his own hand.

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